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Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

Spot on, ML. I've been paying closer attention lately to how the activists frame their arguments and you're right: the ubiquitous 'patient I saw just last week [lol] who went from nearly dead to editor of the law review thanks to my masterful amputation work' might be someone a journalist would visit to corroborate the preacher's claim, yet that never seems to happen.

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Suzanne's avatar

Thanks so much for this. Agreed, the Bowers' interview was a particularly damning part of The Protocol - though Ghorayshi fails to ask any questions that get to just how egregious Bowers' perspective is. It struck me that boys returning a year after surgery, ahead of which they had been "doing poorly in school" made them very young patients. And Bowers' name-calling, well, what I heard was a man being sexist and ageist all at once.

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for the kids's avatar

I have heard that Dr Bowers and Dr Cass are the same age....one brings enormous shame to the profession....

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darcy quinn's avatar

He's literally a month older than her! He was born in Jan 1958, her in Feb. Calling her old and haughty is such blatant sexism it's infuriating. Soooo glad the NYT was there to completely neglect to push back on him at all.

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Susan Scheid's avatar

Brilliant take-down. I have restacked.

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Daniel Howard James's avatar

The world has fallen yet again for religious revolution. Patients of the gender clinics haven't been followed up consistently because transition is a ritual castration practice, not a formal experiment.

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Elizabeth Moorchild's avatar

The new evidence standard of Marci Bowers: “the light in the eyes.”

Is there a double blind randomized placebo controlled study measuring “the light in the eyes”?

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Mothers Grim's avatar

Thanks for this. Did NYT do any research? Mister Doctor Bowers mutilates bodies to match gendered souls. This might act as a salve for his own betrayal but to meddle in the lives of others has become industry standard. NYT is part of the game. You can listen to the evangelist do his preaching here: https://pod.co/global-scalpels/ep-41-marci-bowers

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Lisa Salamone Coaching's avatar

I listened to all of it and was none too happy. Too bad Azeen Ghorayshi didn’t include talk about the released leaked files of WPATH. All she kept mentioning was how major organizations were following the “Standards of Care” set by none other than WPATH.

No mention that Marci Bowers is a trans-identified man, whose biased interview was basically a just a smear campaign against Hillary Cass.

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XxYwise's avatar

Should've asked how Jazz is doing these days...

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Matt Osborne's avatar

Patent medicine sales. It's actually just patent medicine sales

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Lisa Simeone's avatar

The NYT will never do responsible reporting on the gender delusion. It would interfere with their woke bona fides.

The NYT, along with so much of the mainstream media, are complicit in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. They are complicit in the greatest medical scandal of our time.

I hope they're all eventually sued into oblivion. My schadenfreude will be boundless.

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Barbara A.'s avatar

Well said!

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Woke Apostate's avatar

I too listened to the Cass/Bowers episode of The Protocol. One came across (to my no doubt biased ear) as thoughtful, nuanced, reflective, and compassionate. The other came across as whiny, opinionated, manipulative, and paranoid. I wonder how “normies” will react to them?

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Kim J's avatar

This was brilliant. And I am incredibly happy and relieved to read articles that use proper pronouns. 'Marci' is, and was always, a HE.

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sensusquaeram's avatar

AGP on parade.

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